they ve got everything that they want it essentially. they are out of moderates who may not want to move forward with this. and as ryan just said, that may play out in the passage of the rules package, so it govern mccarthy becomes speaker, we still got about three or four hours in front of us of work that congress has to do tonight that might not get done. and indeed, they won t have been i mean, there is the swearing in that has to happen. the opportunities for this to get delayed, for congress to still not be seated and functioning in the way that we have sort of gotten used to it functioning our myriad. and i think, as ryan rightfully points out, it s precedent. what we ve seen over the course of the last four days is very much a taste of what may be to come for the months, if not years ahead. all right, that part doesn t in tonight, alex. thanks very much. have yourself a great weekend. we ll see you next week! thanks, ali. good luck tonight. u next wand it is st
then if everybody else does vote, then there will be a total of 433 votes cast. now, remember, on the final ballot last time around, mccarthy got 214. it was 212 for hakeem jeffries. and then, there were six who didn t vote. now, wesley hunt, we believe, is in the building. is the other pro-mccarthy member who missed the earlier votes. so, that will bring mccarthy up to her 215. we already have, as we say, one present vote from lauren boebert. okay, so what that does, that means, at this point, there will be 432 total votes cast. that will set the magic number at 217, and again, at 215. mccarthy would need help from these final three. he would need either to get two of them to vote for him, or he could get one of them to vote for him. and again, another present vote. or you can even get,
vote he cast it earlier. which underscores what you all are saying, this so much irony to this. for those of us who followed every twist in turn. coming down to matt gaetz voting gaetz not only was the one who was regularly saying he would never vote yet for mccarthy. but he s also the same one who trolled mccarthy for moving his death into the speaker office day two of this process. the irony here just has so many layers to it. it looks like that s where we are. look, i m just looking at. this were about 300 where are we? 360 we should be getting to the end of this thing relatively quickly we have about 30 or 40 votes to. go and then they re gonna start again, steve. and we will hear from buck. and then we re going to hear from gaetz. i m writing it alphabetically in the order that you will cvs names called
and kevin has led us through these challenges the last few days. and kevin is the right person to lead us over the coming two years. and that s why, the direction of the republican conference, i advance the name of kevin mccarthy as the next speaker of the united states house of representatives. [applause] all right, well what we ve got here is kevin mccarthy s name being placed into a nomination. we have hakeem jeffries and i m being placed into a nomination. this is now this is the 14th time this has happened in this attempt to start a congressional session. they are very hopeful the republicans are very hopeful that this is the last time they ll be doing this tonight, if they do succeed in this vote takes place, it will still be a good amount of time.
given what we ve seen. we have five of the six holdouts one of them was willing to budge invoke president. assuming block and gosar no reason not to, assuming they both continue to vote for mccarthy. it comes down to the met gaetz vote. it can t be present. it has to be for mccarthy. if he gets that and everything else holds, mccarthy is the speaker. if he doesn t he is not. i just want to see if ali vitali it is with us. ali, we will leave buck is voting for mccarthy. he was not there when the vote came along. what is the deal with gosar? steve is fairly confident that there s no reason gosar would go back on his 13th ballot vote which was for mccarthy. so that brings this all down to matt gates in the end. yes, i also agree with steve to believe there s no reason for gosar to go back on the